Bed and Breakfasts, Inns, Hotels, and Lodging in Van Horn, Texas:

The Hotel El Capitan was built by Charles Bassett of El Paso and opened in 1930. It was one of five hotels of the Gateway Hotel chain that he built in west Texas and eastern New Mexico, the notable architect Henry Trost of Trost and Trost in El Paso was commissioned to produce the architectural design. The construction company was McKee Construction of El Paso that had built most of the early Hilton Hotels around Texas in the 1920's and 1930's as well as most of the office buildings of that era in downtown El Paso. The Hotel El Capitan was for the most part a cattleman's hotel for its first . . .